Pathology and Identity

ISBN-13: 9780521384278 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 352 str.

Roland Littlewood

Opis

The Earth People of Trinidad draw on Yoruba sources to assert the particular power of female creativity. This first new Caribbean religion since Rastafari is led by a woman, Mother Earth, whose ideas emerged from her experience of a cerebral disease. The author, Roland Littlewood, who is both a psychiatrist and a social anthropologist, offers a nonreductionist view on the relationship between pathology and creativity, between the natural and the human sciences.

Recenzje

"...both original and truly significant. It represents a major contribution to the study of millenarian movements, to African-Caribbean Studies and, one would hope, to the writing of ethnography...Littlewood's text is neither book-bound nor prosaic. It is refreshingly erudite and beautifully written." Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; 1. The coming of the Earth People; 2. A certain degree of instability; 3. Madness, vice and Tabanka: popular knowledge of psychopathology in Trinidad; 4. Mother Earth and the psychiatrists; 5. Putting out the life; 6. Your ancestor is you: African in a new world; 7. Nature and the millennium; 8. Incest: the naked earth; 9. The beginning of the end: everyday life in the valley; 10. Genesis of meanings, limits of mimesis; Appendices; Glossary; Notes; List of references; Index.